Jack Gelber

Jack Gelber

Jack Gelber (b:1932 - May 09, 2003) was a Chicago-born US American playwright best known for his 1959 drama
"The Connection", depicting the dead-end life of drug addicts.

Career

He wrote the confrontational "The Connection",a stage play performed in 1959 by the Living Theater at the age of 26, later made into a film in 1961 by Shirley Clarke. Gelber was also a theater director and teacher and wrote a dozen plays, but "The Connection," remained the cornerstone of his career.

Gelber also appeared in the landmark Cuban film "Memories of Underdevelopment".

"I was so affected and energized by 'The Connection,' " Edward Albee said after his death. "It was exciting, dangerous, instructive and terrifying -- all things theater should be."

External links

* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/11/BA190741.DTL Article]


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